Future Fiction #108 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

Welcome to Future Fiction, my reimagining of the Waiting on Wednesday meme! There are so many amazing new books coming out, that I can no longer pick just one. My goal with Future Fiction is to share at least three new books each week, a combination of recent cover reveals and books that I’ve recently added to my TBR pile. I’m still going to be linking up with Wishful Endings/Can’t Wait Wednesday, and I also want to give a shout out to Jill at Breaking the Spine for starting the original Waiting on Wednesday meme. I hope you’ll find some new books to add to your TBR piles, and as always, I look forward to hearing what YOU’RE looking forward to:-D


Three new cover reveals, take a look:


Cassandra Khaw’s Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists.

A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company.

It’s the perfect wedding venue for a group of thrill-seeking friends.

But a night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare. For lurking in the shadows is the ghost bride with a black smile and a hungry heart.

And she gets lonely down there in the dirt.

Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw. Releases in October 2021 from Tor Nightfire. I’m so happy to finally see Tor Nightfire release their lineup for 2021, and they’ve been doing some cover reveals this past week, and this book is one of those. I LOVE Japanese horror and this sounds amazing! Plus, freaky cover, right?


Django Wexler’s Hard Reboot features giant mech arena battles and intergalactic diplomacy. When did academia get to be so complicated?

Kas is a junior researcher on a fact-finding mission to old Earth. But when a con-artist tricks her into wagering a large sum of money belonging to her university on the outcome of a manned robot arena battle she becomes drawn into the seedy underworld of old Earth politics and state-sponsored battle-droid prizefights.

Is it time to get back to the books, yet?

Hard Reboot by Django Wexler. Releases in May 2021 from Tor.com. I love this cover! I’m also here for mecha battles. I am curious to see how Wexler handles the novella format, since I’ve only read his epic fantasy.


When you are all out of heroes, all that’s left are the villains.

Black Herran was a dread demonologist, and the most ruthless general in all Essoran. She assembled the six most fearsome warriors to captain her armies: a necromancer, a vampire lord, a demigod, an orcish warleader, a pirate queen, and a twisted alchemist. Together they brought the whole continent to its knees… Until the day she abandoned her army, on the eve of total victory.

40 years later, she must bring her former captains back together for one final stand, in the small town of Tarnbrooke – the last bastion against a fanatical new enemy tearing through the land, intent on finishing the job Black Herran started years before.

Seven bloodthirsty monsters. One town. Their last hope.

The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston. Releases in August 2021 from Angry Robot. This cover caught my attention, and the promise of “seven bloodthirsty monsters” sealed the deal!


What do you think of this week’s Future Fiction picks? Let me know in the comments!

Posted January 20, 2021 by Tammy in Future Fiction / 56 Comments

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56 responses to “Future Fiction #108 – Cover Reveals & Newly Discovered SFF Books

  1. Wow, look at that cover for Nothing But Blackened Teeth! I almost think I’d buy the book just to get that artwork. I hope the story’s great, too.

  2. Japanese horrors are just GREAT, and I’m all for Nothing But Blackened Teeth! Yep, like you, I’m really getting excited for its release 😀

  3. Hard Reboot is the one that’s jumping out at me right now:)). I love the sound of this one – the others would have wussy old me shivering under the covers and struggling to sleep…

  4. The cover for Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a bit uncomfortable to look at, but boy does it sound good! I mean, Japanese folklore! The other two sound good as well. I hope you enjoy all three of these when you read them, Tammy!

  5. Nothing but Blackened Teeth looks positively spine-chilling. I wonder how it takes on the Japanese Heian-era folklore. That period specialized in possession by jealous old dead lovers.

  6. I was thinking exactly the same thing as Mogsy – that I’d be glad to read that one on kindle so I didn’t see the cover – which sounds mean but I guess it just means it really works because it gives me the creeps.
    Lynn 😀

  7. JonBob

    THE FUCK IS THAT NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH COVER?!!? Absolute nightmare fuel. Added all three of these books to my TBR, about 95% of which is now made up of books I saw on Future Fiction lol.

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